this imprudent publication; and, in the Preface, confessed that many mistakes were rectified, and many passages, that were justly exceptionable, erased. “… Perhaps, it is not scarcely fair to print again what he himself erased, yet, as the sentences and paragraphs which he subsequently omitted were the occasion of many of the virulent attacks made upon him by his earliest opponents, these attacks cannot be properly understood without the text from which they had their origin. “Besides this, the publication